Learning Target: We can identify moments, events, memories, and subject matter that contain stories
By this Friday, you’ll have a draft of the script for your digital story. Here is the formal assignment with a calendar so you can see how this all comes together. I’ll read your drafts next weekend and give them back next Tuesday with feedback and questions that will help you refine your story. The draft due on Friday is worth 20 points or 4% of your final grade.
I’ll pass out this breakdown of the point totals for the entire semester to help you make decisions about where to put your effort. Please ask me questions about this if anything is unclear. Note that 50% of your grade is connected to your ability to reflect on your writing process and that revisions count for twice as much as drafts.
We’ll build your digital story scripts together, focusing on the most important elements to have a clear, compelling story. Along the way, you’ll learn the basics about character and plot. This should give you plenty to write about for the first entry into your writing journal, which you’ll do over the weekend and will be due a week from Tuesday.
We’ll also be starting our initial writing conferences this week. Part of your exit ticket today will be to pick a time to meet with me on this Google Doc.
After going through all this, we’ll watch some more digital stories and you’ll use this checklist to pick things that stood out and made an impression on you. We’ll compile your insights and use them to build the rubric that we’ll use to grade your digital stories.
We’ll spend the last 20 minutes of class talking about different kinds of stories you can tell and you’ll do some brainstorming, either by powerwriting or making a list, as we did last week. If you look at your list of 50 things that are true about you, you might already have a story you want to tell staring you in the face. But this list of inventions and prompts should help you find the story you need to tell now.
Your exit ticket is to sign up for a conference time on this Google Doc and tell me the three strategies from the list you are going to use to come up with your topic.
Homework due on Tuesday, September 1
Come to class knowing what story you want to tell for your digital story
By this Friday, you’ll have a draft of the script for your digital story. Here is the formal assignment with a calendar so you can see how this all comes together. I’ll read your drafts next weekend and give them back next Tuesday with feedback and questions that will help you refine your story. The draft due on Friday is worth 20 points or 4% of your final grade.
I’ll pass out this breakdown of the point totals for the entire semester to help you make decisions about where to put your effort. Please ask me questions about this if anything is unclear. Note that 50% of your grade is connected to your ability to reflect on your writing process and that revisions count for twice as much as drafts.
We’ll build your digital story scripts together, focusing on the most important elements to have a clear, compelling story. Along the way, you’ll learn the basics about character and plot. This should give you plenty to write about for the first entry into your writing journal, which you’ll do over the weekend and will be due a week from Tuesday.
We’ll also be starting our initial writing conferences this week. Part of your exit ticket today will be to pick a time to meet with me on this Google Doc.
After going through all this, we’ll watch some more digital stories and you’ll use this checklist to pick things that stood out and made an impression on you. We’ll compile your insights and use them to build the rubric that we’ll use to grade your digital stories.
We’ll spend the last 20 minutes of class talking about different kinds of stories you can tell and you’ll do some brainstorming, either by powerwriting or making a list, as we did last week. If you look at your list of 50 things that are true about you, you might already have a story you want to tell staring you in the face. But this list of inventions and prompts should help you find the story you need to tell now.
Your exit ticket is to sign up for a conference time on this Google Doc and tell me the three strategies from the list you are going to use to come up with your topic.
Homework due on Tuesday, September 1
Come to class knowing what story you want to tell for your digital story